Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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(11) Orthopaedic Treatment. Remedial Clinic in-patient and
out-patient treatment at Orthopaedic Hospitals.
(12) Convalescent treatment for debilitated children.
(13) Juvenile Employment.
(14) Open Air Education. (1) Residential Open Air School for
80 Boys and 60 Girls at Fyfield. (2) Day Open Air
School, Crosby Road, for 60 Girls. (3) Ten allocated
beds for Girls at the Ogilvie School of Recovery, Clacton-on-Sea.
(4) Two Holiday Camps (Boys and Girls)
during the Summer Vacation at the Seaside.
(15) Artificial Sunlight Treatment at the Balaam Street Children's
Hospital.
(16) Class for Stammering Children.
(17) Medical Inspection of Special Defective Children at the two
Special Schools and two Deaf Centres.
(18) Medical Inspection of Scholarship Children at the two Higher
Elementary Schools.
(19) Medical Inspection of Pupils, Bursars, and Scholars at the
two Secondary Schools.
(20) Medical Inspection of Junior Technical and Art Classes at
the Municipal College.
(21) Medical Inspection of St. Angela's High School for Girls.
(22) Medical Inspection of Pupils at the West Ham High School
for Girls.
(23) Examination of Children attending Centres for the Deaf by
Specialist Aural Surgeon.
(24) Examination of Referred Pupils from Continuation Schools
and Juvenile Unemployment Centres.
(25) Work in conjunction with N.S.P.C.C. as occasion arises.
(5) The Findings of Medical Inspection.
(a) UNCLEANLINESS.
To each of the five areas into which the Borough has been
divided for the purpose of administration as before mentioned, is
attached a Special Duty Nurse, who concentrates on cleanliness
surveys in each school, in rota. The dirty and verminous children
are followed up at their homes until clean. A certain number,
with the parents' consent, are cleansed at the Clinics.
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